[fiatjaf]

A better way to browse forks.

If today you see that a major repository has a fork with a lot of commits, you cannot know without looking through THEM ALL if they are just typo fixes or if the fork is really changing/improving things over the main repo.

[z1mm32m4n]

One way that has served me as being a pretty good metric of what's what when it comes to forks looking at the number of stars the parent and child repos have. If a fork has started to usurp it's parent, it generally has a fair deal of its own stars.

[danieltillett]

This. The amount of time I have wasted looking in forks is staggering.

[knappe]

100% agree. I wish there was some way to also promote a fork, other than changing the readme to point to the new fork, which also means mucking up the history of the project.